MK Partners is offering all of our clients a $100.00 USD discount off of their Dreamforce registration fees. There’s no catch, nothing you need to do to get it, it’s just our way of saying thank you. To get your discount, use promo code is EXDMKPTR when registering as a Dreamforce Attendee at www.dreamforce.com.
And when you’re at Dreamforce, be sure to stop by our booth and say hello.
If you’re like us, then you’re eagerly watching the calendar as the Winter ’11 release of Salesforce nears. This year, Winter is coming early, which means that DF11 is going to be full of surprises. We don’t know what those surprises are yet, but we do know what’s coming in the Winter ’11 release. If you’re interested, you may want to attend an upcoming webinar showcasing the new features.
September 2, 2010
6:00–8:00 a.m. PDT
Repeats 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. PDT
Hour 1: Force.com & Chatter
Check out Force.com platform enhancements—including Chatter components and packages, as well as enhanced support for developing and debugging Apex and Force.com pages—designed to help you create amazing applications.
Hour 2: Sales & Service Clouds plus Chatter
We’ll preview new tools sure to boost collaboration and productivity among your sales and service teams.
Salesforce.com is hosting a webinar titled “Real-World Success with Chatter”. The webinar covers how to start using Chatter to make your business more effective including some examples from Dell, BCD Travel, and Vocera.
The webinar is available on three different dates:
August 11 10:00 a.m. PDT
August 17 10:00 a.m. PDT
August 25 10:00 a.m. PDT
Salesforce.com is hosting an all-day event on June 22, 2010 at the San Jose Convention Center. The event is being marketed to customers and developers but with a mix of non-technical and semi-technical breakouts. The agenda has an emphasis on Chatter but there are some other interesting topics as well.
Registration and Event Details are available at salesforce.com/events.
Salesforce.com is holding a Cloudforce 2 city tour in Southern California on June 17, 2010. The event is being held at the Westin Long Beach and all attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Service Cloud for Dummies (co-authored by MK Partners’ very own Matt Kaufman).
June 17, 12:00 – 6:30 p.m.
The Westin Long Beach
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Registration & Expo
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Keynote: Welcome to Cloud 2
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Break & Expo
3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Break & Expo
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Reception & Expo
Real Capital Markets, a company that provides custom web marketing, a Virtual Deal Room®, and qualified principal/buyer database for the commercial real estate industry, has selected MK Partners to optimize its use of salesforce.com. Real Capital Markets came to MK Partners because it felt it was not leveraging the full functionality of salesforce.com. Specifically, MK Partners will focus on modifying salesforce.com to better help Real Capital Markets track and monitor the tasks and data associated with its sales funnel, pending deals, and automate the ability to process service agreements within salesforce.com.
MK Partners is excited to bring Real Capital Markets the results it seeks and welcome them to the long list of businesses who have relied on MK Partners to better enhance their processes and service.
Starting next week, MK Partners will be hosting monthly giveaways for our loyal blog readers. Once a month, on a random day, we will have a post detailing the prize and what you need to do to enter. The prizes will at first consist of licenses for our products, but we are actively working on getting our partners to participate too. The details on what you have to do to enter will be in the blog post.
For this first giveaway, we’re going to give you some extra hints. The post will be published on Wed 3/10 at 8am PST. In order to enter you will have to be one of the first 10 people to comment on the post. The prize will be a 1 year org-wide license to our latest product Who’s Money?, a $500 value. Who’s Money? is an automated calculation engine that will let you see how many Opportunities (Donations or Gifts) are related to a Contact and how many dollars they are worth. The product uses the very latest features in salesforce.com that came out in the Spring ’10 release.
For more information about Who’s Money? visit our new products page at www.mkpartners.com/products-services
Whipple Russell Architects, an architecture firm, has selected MK Partners to optimize its use of salesforce.com. Without a dedicated IT staff, Whipple Russell Architects came to MK Partners to leverage the full functionality of salesforce.com. Specifically, MK Partners employed a Consulting On-Demand solution to sync MS Outlook with salesforce.com and developed web-to-lead forms so Whipple Russell Architects could better manage its correspondence and generate more leads.
With our Consulting On-Demand package, organizations contact an MK Partners salesforce.com expert as needed to implement immediate solutions to salesforce.com obstacles.
MK Partners is excited to bring Whipple Russell Architects the results it seeks and welcomes them to the long list of businesses who have relied on MK Partners to better enhance their processes and services.
Salesforce.com has two in person events coming up in the next few months. If you’re an experienced Administrator that wants to start building out custom functionality, we recommend the Admin to Hero Roadshow. If you’re brand new and don’t really know where to start then the Cloudforce 2 Essentials is a good place. Here are the details.
Admin to Hero Roadshow: Free Force.com training session
Mar 16, 2010
9am or 1pm
salesforce.com
900 Concar Dr
San Mateo, CA 94402
Cloudforce 2 Essentials: Sacramento
Apr 8, 2010
Hyatt Regency – Sacramento
1209 L Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
MK Partners is proud to announce that we have a new Contact Us page on our website. Our former Contact Us page was a web-to-lead form that submitted new leads directly into our salesforce org. It was very good at what it did, but we really needed a more powerful page.
Our new Contact Us page is powered by force.com Sites and it does much more than just enter leads into salesforce. The new page dynamically changes the questions on the screen based on why you are contacting us. If you’re contacting us for product support it you have to fill out questions related to the issue. If you’re contacting us for sales you have to fill out questions related to your project. But wait, there’s more, not only do the questions on the screen change, but the resulting record in salesforce changes too. Support inquiries turn into cases and sales inquiries turn into leads!
We fell this upgrade is is long overdue for us, not only because we are such proponents of using force.com Sites but also because it improves our efficiency and helps us respond faster to support requests.
If you’re interested in having MK Partners create a custom force.com Sites powered page for your website, fill out our Contact Us form at http://www.mkpartners.com/contact
